Learn & Teach

Common Core Aligned Workshops

Connecting Content and Common Core Literacy Standards Using Museum Resources

This one day workshop explores how museum resources and school group visits can support both the Common Core literacy standards in reading and writing and science concepts from the New York State Curriculum in Science. Participants will explore a model for linking literacy and science content through visiting Museum Halls, engaging in strategies for reading and writing tasks and discussing how they would use the presented models and resources in their own work.

Visitors to the Museum’s Spitzer Hall of Human Origins are invited to “walk” in the footsteps of hominins who lived some 3.6 million years ago. For Brian Richmond deciphering what such footprints can tell us about the behavior of our early ancestors is the stuff of his life’s work.

Melanie Hopkins is working to unlock the history of the evolution of animals over vast stretches of geologic time and, for her, the key is trilobites—extinct arthropods that lived for almost 300 million years until 250 million years ago when Earth experienced the largest mass extinction in its history.